{"product_id":"313825","title":"Peter Beets - Chopin Meets the Blues [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChopin melodies used as a basis for jazz improvisation? In the wrong hands, the results could be truly catastrophic. Yet it's a notion with great appeal for celebrated Dutch piano marvel Peter Beets.\\r\u003cbr\u003e'Why, melodic embellishment is at the heart of everything that Chopin wrote!' enthuses Peter. 'In fact, he was composing tunes ideal for bebop, althoughhe couldn't have known it at the time.'\\r\u003cbr\u003eIt's a happy coincidence that the fifth Criss Cross CD under Beets' leadership arrives during the bicentennial year of Chopin's birth. \\r\u003cbr\u003eBut it's clearly not a project haphazardly thrown together at the last moment. Instead, Peter recruited three of New York's premier jazzmen \\u2013 guitarist Joe Cohn, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Greg Hutchinson \\u2013 as co-conspirators. Together, this quartet wrings extraordinary measures of beauty, excitement and yes, fun from eight of Chopin's most memorable pieces. \\r\u003cbr\u003eTheir collaboration is, in a word, breathtaking\u003cp\u003eNocturne in Eb Major Opus 9 # 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNocturne in F Minor Opus 55 # 1 (1)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMazurka In A Minor Opus 17 # 4\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrelude In B Minor Opus 28 # 6\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrelude In E Minor Opus 28 # 4\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNocturne In B Major Opus 9 # 3\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWaltz In C# Minor Opus 64 # 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNocturne In F Minor Opus 55 # 1 (2)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55179745165697,"sku":"313825","price":15.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/41VOyJ29OHL._SL1500.jpg?v=1768220117","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/313825","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}